Can someone answer these questions?

#1 If you have the marina do it will cost a grand or more maybe,

if you do it then maybe a little under 200-250 depending where you buy the manifold. But don't run it with the cracked one unless your insurance is paid up on the boat and they well buy you a new motor when it hydrolocks and trashes the motor. To check if it is leaking it needs to be off and you need to fill it with water and look for water going out of the exhaust ports not through the riser section like it's suppose to.

#2 Not sure maybe not but you can get a different wheel non the less and change the looks pretty easily, it might work but I know the helms are different but the wheels may mount the same 74 and 98

#3 you might be able to get skins from Mid-west CC or other sources but really your just as well off using a local shop.

welcome and enjoy and don't forget to post some pictures in the diaries sectiona and meet up with the other chicago folks on this site, and Sorry about the BEARS lose,,, WORLD CHAMPS   INDY COLTS   go horse

Tim, All wheels except the tilting have 3/4" tapered shafts so anything will fit. You may want to stick with something as close to original as possible but that depends on how much of a purest you are.

Regarding the seats / upholstery, I'm very much a purest and would hate to see a classic CC 74 with the junk aftermarket seats in it. Get them to a uphostery shop and they will be able to come real close if not exact to the original. The only problem they may have is getting the heat embossed fake pleated vinyl but this can be stiched in. I doubt that CC will have skins for a 74.

If you had a MasterCraft then I would say it would be OK to buy the cheap aftermarket seats!!

Tim, This photo shows the stiched in rather than the heat embosed original.

8122pbrainard wrote:

Man, I hope you can get one (or both) of those CCs to Green Lake this year. Come on Pete!

Rob

Pete, that Tique is awsome !!!!! My first CC was a brand new 1978 Tique in the same color. Only difference was the engine cover was completely covered. I loved that boat but out grew it with the family. You know I bought that boat for $7,500 new and sold it 10 years later for $7,500. Talk about value !!!

Tim, Don't sink it!! Boats for alot of us are a "labor of love". We start with a wreck and with many man hours end up with great looking boats. You'll get there and stick with us for any help you may need.

Do you know what shape your stringers are in?

Get some pictures and post them.

Pete, your 77' looks amazing!! Was the teak platform original equipment in 77'? My first Nautique was a 77' Ski, it had the ladder on the back which I eventually removed when I added the teak.

Tsarge, Welcome to CCFan, another Chicago guy here, where do you ski?

Great looking boat, trailer, everything. I hope mine grows up to be like that!

Chuck

I don't believe you could get a swim platform in 79 mine had a ladder that was replaced as well.

My 78 Tique did not come with a ladder or a platform. I added one that I got from CC, but do not remeber the year? I still can't remeber how we got in and out of the water without the platform?

Those ladders are a pain.. Mine has a ladder and ones want to pull themselves up with the cross bar for the rope guide which usually gets bent.

Steve

Pete,
You did a fine job with your Tique!
Thanks again for making up extra decals for the older boats. Did your Tique come with that bench observer seat? My 79 has a single bucket observer seat and my kids would live a bench like that. I'm about to have the seats redone and was curious if it would be hard to change to a bench seat.
Gabe